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Egyptian artisans produced work that continues to amaze millennia later, but they were human and fallible, too, and their work was often far from perfect.

Although he was many things to many people over the course of his career, Eco was, first and foremost, an historian railing against modernism in all its forms.

The first English king to be converted to Christianity died on February 24th, 616.

A newly found hoard offers insights into an England threatened by Vikings.

A conversation about the new critical edition of Hitler's notorious book.

The accusation that James VI of Scotland and I of England was murdered by his favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, may have been a false one but it was widely believed.

Roger Hudson describes how the ‘stiffest bridge in the world’ took shape following a railway disaster in 1897.

The future queen of England and Ireland was born on February 18th, 1516.

Catherine Steel traces the incredible longevity of Cicero’s great corpus of works, the study of which has helped to illuminate the intellectual and social culture of the late Roman Republic.